Cloud Security for Healthcare Services

Abstract

The primary goal of this paper is to give the audience a set of principles to follow when purchasing cloud services to deliver healthcare services in order to ensure cybersecurity and the security of personal data processing, as well as a clear awareness of the accompanying obligations. The objectives are to provide a landscape of the applicable EU legislative instruments relevant to cloud services in the healthcare sector as well as an overview of the major cybersecurity and data protection challenges related to the security of personal data processing for cloud customers in the healthcare sector.